We get AI for work™: New Efforts to Ensure a National AI Policy
The Briefing: Why Lady Gaga Beat a Trademark Injunction Over “Mayhem”
Beyond the Deals: Student-Athlete Identity, Development, and NIL With 42U's Stephen Bienko — Highway to NIL Podcast
Why Does Everyone Say 'The Big Game' Instead of 'Super Bowl'? — No Infringement Intended Podcast
The Briefing: Top Gun Cleared for Takeoff: The Ninth Circuit Affirms Paramount’s Copyright Win
The Briefing: The 2026 Forecast: Resolving Some of the Entertainment Industry’s Open Legal Issues
Podcast - 2025 Equine Policy Recap and What to Watch in 2026
The Briefing: 2025 IP Resolutions Start With a Review of IP Assets (Featured)
The JustPod: Prison Artist Mark Loughney Discusses Creating Art from Prison
The Briefing: New York Times v. Perplexity AI: Copyright, Hallucinations, and Trademark Risk
The Briefing: A Very Patented Christmas – The Quirkiest Inventions for the Holiday Season (Featured)
(Podcast) The Briefing: A Very Patented Christmas – The Quirkiest Inventions for the Holiday Season (Featured)
(Podcast) The Briefing: Nudity Riders, Consent, and the Terrifier Lawsuit: What Producers Must Know
The Briefing: Nudity Riders, Consent, and the Terrifier Lawsuit: What Producers Must Know
Podcast - Art, Law and the Athlete: Protecting Equine Imagery in the Studio and Market
Is My Private TV Stream a Public Performance? — No Infringement Intended Podcast
The Briefing: The Man In Black v. Coca Cola: The New Soundalike Showdown
12 Days of Regulatory Insights: Day 6 – Sports Wagering, Player Proposition Bets, and Prediction Market Battles — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
The Briefing: What Is Fair Use and Why Does It Matter? (Featured)
(Podcast) The Briefing: What Is Fair Use and Why Does It Matter? (Featured)
The United States Fifth Circuit recently reversed a district court ruling awarding attorney’s fees to a former NFL player seeking disability benefits from the NFL Player Retirement Plan in Cloud v. Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL...more
The second half of 2025 involved significant legal and regulatory activity across fantasy sports, event contracts, sweepstakes casinos and sports betting. The period was marked by a steady stream of new rulings, enforcement...more
Q: Why do companies refer to the Super Bowl as The Big Game in their advertising? A: Because the Super Bowl is trademarked, but The Big Game is not. Of course news outlets can use either term under the fair use doctrine,...more
Unrivaled is a 3-on-3 basketball league founded by WNBA superstars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. The league has attracted many established WNBA stars, like Ms. Stewart, as well as up-and-coming young players like...more
The Olympic Games’ intellectual properties (“Olympic Properties”) are broadly protected worldwide, including the rings symbol, mascots, names (e.g., “Milano Cortina 2026”), mottos, graphics, event designs, music and...more
The Illinois Gaming Board (IGB) held its first monthly meeting of 2026 on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. The meeting was hybrid with in-person accessibility at 160 N. LaSalle St., 5th Floor Auditorium and via livestream. Board...more
Welcome to the February 2026 edition of The Sports Law Playbook. In this issue, we take a closer look at the legal challenges facing advertisers, sponsors and rights holders as marquee events like the Super Bowl and the...more
The Culver City Council is considering a proposal to establish its Downtown Business Improvement District (including key portions of Culver Boulevard and Washington Boulevard, as well as Town Plaza, The Culver Steps and Main...more
The first part of the owners, directors, and senior executives (ODSE) regime came into force on 12 December 2025 and was hailed by Independent Football Regulator (IFR) Chief Executive Richard Monks as the “new era for...more
Italy will host the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo starting February 6, 2026, bringing global attention back to the country for one of the most prominent international sporting events....more
Key Takeaways - Damages awards for Visual Artists Rights Act (“VARA”) violations are not precluded by copyright infringement damages awards. The plaintiff’s VARA award was in addition to an award of actual damages for...more
The legal and compliance landscape for name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights in college sports has changed dramatically over the last two years....more
The Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, is expected to be one of the most watched events in the world, potentially drawing an audience surpassing the previous year’s record of 127.7 million viewers. Although it brings...more
Just weeks ago, we reported that the College Sports Commission (CSC) would be ramping up investigations into unreported third-party NIL agreements. The CSC has since made good on that promise. On January 30, The Athletic...more
This month's rash of indictments over alleged point-shaving in college basketball seems unlikely to prompt immediate wholesale changes within the NCAA, with the organization instead looking outward to address the threats...more
The art world is experiencing a digital revolution. Immersive technologies are reimagining the shapes that art can take and how the public can view the art. Museums offer augmented reality overlays that animate paintings....more
Is it worth it? This coming Sunday, Mike Macdonald will lead the Seattle Seahawks into Super Bowl LX against the New England Patriots. That Macdonald is 38 years old and only in his second season as a head coach in the...more
If there's one word to describe 2025 in sports law, it's transformation. From January through August 2025, the sports landscape experienced structural changes, most consequentially in college sports where the House v. NCAA...more
As the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots meet again on football’s biggest stage, the rematch inevitably pulls everyone back to one moment. Different rosters. Different seasons. Same unresolved question. With a...more
Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg et al., Case No. 24-3367 (9th Cir. 2026) - On January 2, 2026, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a jury verdict finding that tattoo artist Katherine Von Drachenberg (also known as Kat Von D) and her...more
In a landmark decision, Austria’s Supreme Court has held that FIFA’s lootboxes do not constitute games of chance under the Austrian Gaming Act, siding with the defendants and dismissing the player's claim – one of the first...more
Duke University settled its lawsuit against star quarterback Darian Mensah on January 27, slightly over a week after filing it. The swift settlement concluded a case that could have resolved fundamental legal questions facing...more
Unlike traditional sportsbooks, regulated platforms operate under Commodity Exchange Act and US Commodity Futures Trade Commission (CFTC) rules for derivative products, appealing to institutional players and retail traders...more
Directs the Departments of Interior and Transportation to establish and support the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, an INDYCAR street race in Washington, DC, in celebration of America's 250th anniversary. The order prioritizes...more
On January 28, 2026, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted to explore a $5 million subsidy/support initiative aimed at microdramas, which are short-form, vertical (9:16) scripted productions that often operate at...more